Benjamin Olds' Work
Image from Holiday present: Being a Variety of Stories for Children. With 24 engravings. Dedicated to the author's little friends, Kate & Fanny. Newark: Benjamin Olds, 1850.
Image from The English Reader, of Pieces in prose and verse, from the best writers; designed to assist young persons with propriety and effect; improve their language and sentiments to inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading. By Lindley Murray. Newark: Benjamin Olds, 1836.
Images courtesy of Special Collections, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Selected Titles Printed by Olds in Newark
Cobb, Lyman. Stories about the vulture, dodo, spoonbill, pelican, cormorant, and goldfinch in words of one, two, and three syllables. Newark, 1835.Cobb, Lyman. Two cent toys. Second series, no 7. Stories about the peach, pear, cherry, plum, quince, apple, and currant, in words of one and two syllables. Newark, 1844.
Cobb, Lyman. Cobb's Toys. Third series, No. 2. Stories about the sheep, cow, ox, horse, ass, and deer. In words of one, two and three syllables. Newark, 1835.